Youth Employment Programs - Independent Evaluation Group

sustainability. Zambia’s TEVET project envisaged strengthening theinfluence of the private sector through local management boards of traininginstitutions, and the channeling of government and private finance fortraining through the TEVET Fund. However, management boards had limitedauthority. The TEVET Fund was only briefly piloted with donor funding, andwas not sustainable after funding closed without contributions from thegovernment and private sector.The TEVET Authority (TEVETA) Board, with nongovernment majority, has beenchaired by a representative of the private sector. TEVETA used private sectorrepresentatives in developing the qualifications framework, occupationalstandards, and curricula. TEVETA helped develop linkages between individualtraining institutions and employers for trainee work experience, which wasan important achievement that has proved difficult to secure in other similarprojects.Bank projects have supported: decentralizing financial and managerialcontrol to training institutions; updating the curriculum, equipment, andfacilities; and establishing quality assurance systems. In Ghana, the Bankis supporting TVET reforms, including: (i) a TVET management informationsystem to better identify skill needs; (ii) guidelines for standards,qualification, and certification; (iii) the engagement of private trainingproviders; (iv) the formation of national TVET policies and coordination; (v)competitive selection of training providers with private employers in theformal and informal sectors. In Mauritania, the Bank supported twinningprograms with institutions in France, Morocco, and Canada to develop a newcurriculum for the training of TVET instructors. Approximately 3,138 newinstructors were trained, and training centers were equipped; 4,344 studentshave graduated from the centers, with 20 percent employed in the privatesector. The outflow into employment increased from 60 percent to 80 percentduring project time. The Bank supported Turkey in expanding vocationaltraining to include half a million participants by 2010. It also organized ayouth internship with a stipend for 1,285 graduates in vocational educationin 2009. Related expenses were financed by the unemployment insurancefund.IFC support was mainly to the tertiary level of vocational training. InJune 2004, IFC provided a loan to build a new campus for the Institute ofBusiness associated with the University of West Indies—a public sectorinstitution, in Port of Spain, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Asof 2009, there have been 1,000 graduates (279 additional graduates sincethe project) with postgraduate degrees and diplomas and 19,000 executivetrainees (4,432 additional trainees since the project) from the public andprivate sector benefiting from short-term management training programs.The project’s business success is rated satisfactory. The economic rate ofreturn calculations are 33.6 percent and 38.6 percent respectively, taking intoaccount the net present value of the salary differential between incrementalgraduates and non-graduates of the Institute of Business and the opportunity152 Youth Employment Programs